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Once again a great posting. I especially liked the last map that shows the early language areas starting from 700 AD. That highlights the idiotic claims of “this was ours for thousands of years”.

I am shure you know about the Sorbs in Sachsen and Brandenburg who managed to survive “Germanization” to this day. Now a days of course they are a protected minority and no longer under threat and therefore slowly losing their language.

Cheers

Paul

Phil24 November, 2011 @ 6:40 am

To be fair, the German settlement postdates the Slavic settlement by several centuries.

This game of ‘ours! no, ours!’ needs to end. No matter how far back you look, someone else was there first, and unless we manage to reanimate the people of the Hallstatt culture, the original owners aren’t getting it back any time soon.

The region would be so much richer were it not for all this animosity. Now that open borders are back, I deeply hope it begins growing back together.

HI Phil
If you understood any animosity from me regarding the modern Slavs or the more ancient Pruessy, Pogesanians, Pomesanians or Pomerelians, you sadly misunderstand my writings. See: http://www.many-roads.com/2010/12/18/on-the-vertreibung-expulsions-and-hope/ As for who pre-dates or post-dates who, it is immaterial and also totally dependent upon the region discussed. As for richness and animosity, perhaps everyone needs to forgive themselves first. The past is immutable, it is the future we can influence. And we can move to a better future, if we understand and listen to each other, with open minds. As for those who hurt, regardless the cause, perhaps we need to assuage their fears and actively work together towards a future of understanding and mutual respect.